Red Sticks were a traditionalist faction of
Muscogee Creek people in the
American Southeast in the early 19th century. They led a resistance movement to European-American encroachment and
assimilation; tensions culminated in the outbreak of the
Creek War in 1813. Initially a civil war among the Creek, the conflict drew in United States state forces while the nation was already engaged in the
War of 1812 against the British.